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Mexicos president announced a program of 39 joint publicprivate infrastructure projects Monday worth about $14 billion to help revive the economy, which has been pummeled by the coronavirus pandemic.

Oman has sent an ambassador to Syria after an eightyear hiatus, the state news agency reported, the latest sign of deepening engagement between Gulf Arab states and Syria's President Bashar Assad.

Shares in the company that owns the Regal, Cineworld and Picturehouse movie theaters fell as much as 58% after it said it will temporarily close the venues because the postponement of the latest James Bond film left it with few blockbusters to attract cus...

The fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist territory of NagornoKarabakh resumed on Monday morning, with both sides accusing each other of launching attacks.

Health authorities in Uganda say the supply of blood has sharply declined since the start of the coronavirus pandemic as fewer people donate and schools remain closed. The consequences are sometimes deadly.

Interpol issued a Red Notice last week informing member countries that Thailand sought the arrest of a Thai heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune involved in a 2012 traffic accident that killed a police officer, Thai police said Monday.

The White House has given New Jersey officials the names of more than 200 people who attended events around President Donald Trump's fundraising trip to Bedminster on Thursday, hours before he tested positive for COVID19, New Jersey officials said.

Malian authorities have released 180 Islamic extremists from a prison in the capital and flown them to the country's north, an official confirmed late Sunday, fueling speculation that a prominent opposition politician held by jihadists could soon be freed...

Wildfires in California have burned more than 4 million acres, or 6,250 square miles, (1.6 million hectares) in 2020, over twice the previous record for any year and an area larger than Connecticut, the state's fire agency reported on Sunday.

Iran has indefinitely furloughed a prominent researcher with dual FrenchIranian citizenship who was imprisoned on security charges, her lawyer said Sunday.

A man was assaulted and wounded near a synagogue in Hamburg on Sunday, police said. The suspected assailant was arrested.

More than 100,000 people marched in Belarus' capital for the ninth straight Sunday to protest against the country's authoritarian leader, who won his sixth term in office in an election widely seen as rigged.

U.S. and tribal officials are celebrating completion of a $34 million fish bypass system at a Nevada dam that will allow a threatened trout species to return to some of its native spawning grounds for the first time in more than a century.

Sudans fragile interim government is sharply divided over normalizing relations with Israel, as it finds itself under intense pressure from the Trump administration to become the third Arab country to do so in short order after the United Arab Emirates a...

Tunisian authorities will ban all gatherings and reduce working hours for employees in the public sector in order to stop the rapid spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi said on Saturday.